Re: Transparent gif design on the PC

Brian D. Goodwin (goodwin@uofport.edu)
Fri, 27 Jan 1995 08:25:35 +0100


Be sure to save the image in gif89a format after you've selected the
background color. I've got an inline image faq, if anyone would would
like a copy, drop me a line....

Brian Goodwin
University of Portland Printing Services
goodwin@uofport.edu

On Thu, 26 Jan 1995, Ian Kallen wrote:

> On Wed, 25 Jan 1995, Brian D. Goodwin wrote:
>
> > LView Pro for Windows. Available at fine CICA mirrors everywhere. It's
> > not a photoshop plug-in, but it is quite simple to use. Make sure you
> > get Lview Pro, not the plain Lview.
> >
>
> hmmm, been unable to get Lview Pro to generate the transparency...background
> persists. Care to elaborate how rendered the GIF transparent with it??
> Thanks.
>
> > Brian Goodwin
> > University of Portland Printing Services
> > goodwin@uofport.edu
> >
> > On Wed, 25 Jan 1995, Kevin Buttler wrote:
> >
> > >
> > > Text item: Transparent gif design on the PC
> > >
> > > Anybody out there know of any programs for the PC where I can make the
> > > background transparent.
> > > There is a program available at
> > > http://melmac.corp.harris.com/transparent_images.html called
> > > giftrans that I tried to use to no avail. I'm trying to find something I
> > > can use with Photoshop 3.0....any
> > > ideas?
> > >
> > > Thanks!
> > > kbuttler@lante.com
> Yea, I was unable to get that 'giftrans' thang to work as marqueed.
> Certainly there must be some ms-windows shareware that'll do the trick
> -- have'nt found it yet!
>
> <sigh>
> alas: I went over to the mac on the next desk over, used 'gifconverter' and
> 'transparency' to achieve the desired effect....
> </sigh>
>
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